298 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker's 



sagittate white marks, a terminal row of spots, a large black sub- 

 anal spot with metallic blue scales and a fine edging of yellowish. 



?• Upperside, both wings brovsai. Primaries with the basal three- 

 quarters bright violet up to half of the cell. Secondaries with the 

 basal three-fifths bright violet up to vein 6. Otherwise like the 

 male. 



Expanse, o 44; ^50 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony; Transvaal. 

 Type in the Joicey collection. 



Genitalia. Harpagines shortish of the usual shape, tapering very 

 rapidly from an almost oblong base, highly concave on the lower 

 margin, almost straight along the upper margin, quite suddenly 

 excised near the apex into a broad sickle-shaped extremity, long 

 bristles mostly congregated at the base and apex; anellus with 

 very slightly curved front edge; aedoeagus short and broad; 

 cingulum bent forward, of moderate dimensions ; tegumen a narrow 

 ridge at the rear with cheeks, rather small, produced well forward, 

 with numerous bristles ; falces long and of moderate width. 



Androconia oblong, more broadly curved distally than proximally, 

 with nine or ten rows of reticulations placed far apart, with the 

 sculpturing placed vertically far apart also. 



Neochrysops lerothodi Trimen, Plate XVII, figs. 16, 16a. 



Lycaena lerothodi Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., p. 242, 

 PI. 19, fig. 6 (1904). 



(J and 9. Upperside, both wings uniformly brown with a slight 

 bi'assy lustre in certain angles of light, fringes paler with a Avhitish 

 patch at the apex of each wing. Underside paler than the upper, 

 v/ith darker spots palely encircled. Primaries with a spot closing 

 the cell ; the postmedian series consists of six spots, the upper 

 five being in a slight ciu-ve, whilst the two uppermost spots of 

 these five are smaller than the others, the sixth spot is shifted well 

 outwards, the terminal and subterminal rows are very obscure, but 

 the latter is edged internally by a row of narrow white internervular 

 dashes. Secondaries with four blackish spots- near the base, the 

 fourth smaller one on the inner margin being nearer the base, a 

 fifth black spot is beyond the centre below vein 8 ; the postmedian 

 series is strongly curved at the second spot, the first spot being 

 shifted well outwards of the black spot below vein 8, the second 

 further out, the third slightly inwards, but larger and somewhat 

 oval, the fourth small and inwards, the fifth well inwards, the sixth 

 outwards, this row has the inner white edge accentuated, the very 



